Mitter's work shows interestingly how WWII has become a party's founding myth for a collective memory of China as an emerging power - one that's a WWII victor first, not a victim.

They won the S-J War Theatre of Operations. The US certainly weakened the opponent, but the US did not support the liberation well, and what went to the Nationalists was used on the PLA/CCP. It angered Mao.